Two of America’s great artists, landscape painter Thomas Moran and Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis, come together in this exhibition that highlights their unparalleled creative and technical skill. Curtis was a generation younger than Moran but he had much in common with his elder. Both men were intrepid explorers and tireless artists. They had an interest in the lands and people of the American West and sought to heroically represent and preserve each, in their own way, in their art.

Image: Edward S. Curtis (America, 1868-1952), Iahˆla (“Willow”) – Taos, plate #545, 1905, photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper, 15 ½ x 11 ½ inches, gift of the Dubuque Cultural Preservation Committee, an Iowa general partnership consisting of Dr. Darryl K. Mozena, Jeffrey P. Mozena, Mark Falb, Timothy J. Conlon, and Dr. Randall Lengeling, 2009.545.